* * * * *
                                        
  “a cage for half a dosen of hennys or chekyn to have with yow in the galey,
                 for ye schal have nede unto them meny tymes.”
                                        
> “Guard your face carefully from the enormous insects,” instructs the guide
> for 12th-century pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, “and if you do not
> watch your feet carefully, you will slip rapidly up to your knees in the
> quicksand.” 
> 
> …
> 
> I hereby share some of this bounty with 21st-century travelers. Whatever
> the nature of your next voyage, this advice should help you get there and
> back again without falling victim to thieves, plagues or enormous insects.
> (You’ll have to find your own coping mechanisms for jet lag and selfie-
> stick malfunction.)
> 
> …
> 
> Seat location is also important. Wey offers this compelling advice: If you
> go in a galley, choose a seat in the top level, because the lowest level is
> “ryght smolderyng hote and stynkyng.” Similarly, Brasca cautioned that the
> traveler “should take care to arrange in good time — especially if given to
> suffering from the head on account of the movement of the sea — to have his
> lodging in the middle of the galley and near a middle door in order to have
> a little air.” …
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “What tips for traveling have changed since medieval
times? Surprisingly few. - The Washington Post [2]”

Wow! To think that even 500 years ago they were complaining about conditions
in coach!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179354
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/what-tips-for-traveling

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